765.84/4300: Telegram
The Chargé in Italy ( Kirk ) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 6—2:05 p.m.]
133. Foreign Office officials inform me that order has been established in Addis Ababa and that all measures for the protection of foreigners have been taken. They state that the details of the provisional administration of the recently occupied territory have not yet been determined but it is understood that all military powers are vested in Badoglio and that Bottai, Governor of Rome, who is with the Italian forces, has been named a frontier governor to administer the city of Addis Ababa.
In the course of conversations with Foreign Office officials the information was volunteered that although the chiefs of mission at Addis Ababa could not be recognized as accredited representatives they and the members of their legations would be given diplomatic privileges as a matter of courtesy and such facilities as are usual in the case of a military occupation. The officials added that as a matter of practice the diplomatic representatives there would have the de facto status of consuls and that the situation was simplified by the fact that many of the diplomatic officers in Addis Ababa had consular rank also.
Repeated nowhere.